CotP

• Description: probable spore coat protein
  
  

Gene name	cotP
Synonyms	ydfT
Essential	no
Product	probable spore coat protein
Function	resistance of the spore
MW, pI	16 kDa, 4.56
Gene length, protein length	429 bp, 143 aa
Immediate neighbours	ydfS, ydgA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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Categories containing this gene/protein

sporulation proteins

This gene is a member of the following regulons

SigK regulon

The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU05550

Expression

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: [1]

• SubtiList entry: [2]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity:

• Protein family: small heat shock protein (HSP20) family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P96698

• KEGG entry: [3]

• E.C. number:

Expression and regulation

• Operon: ydgB-ydgA-cotP (according to DBTBS)

• Sigma factor: SigK PubMed

• Regulation:
  • expressed during sporulation (SigK) PubMed
  • repressed by GerE PubMed

• Regulatory mechanism:

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: